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Just How Far Reaching is this Anxiety?

An acquaintance of mine, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, wrote this book I love called, The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television. She even has a website in which you can peruse many of her brilliant ideas.

Hmph. I’m reminded of Joakim Noah’s reaction to a reporter who tried to create a controversy between Noah and another player by quoting a rather innocuous statement and presenting it as fighting words. “Oh my gaawwwwd! He said that? What a bad person.”

NM, I am not all for getting rid of all critics, obviously, but this grates on me because it’s so firmly rooted in this idea of a meritocracy, where we can just all rest assured that the good guys have the positions they deserve and the bloggers just uniformly sucks.

Oh, I’m not defending Shickel. I’m just against throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I think he’s doing just that himself, but so are a lot of the “what use are critics at all?” people responding to him, too.

Why must I be forced to choose? I’d like to see both. I mean, don’t get me wrong. I love the idea of a meritocracy, but how often do you see folks born on third base acting like they must have hit a triple because they so firmly believe that everyone is right where they deserve to be?

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